Think of all the physically and psychologically scarred veterans.
The irreparable harm already done and still being done to the constitution, to civil liberties and judicial procedure.
The environmental degradation cause by the manufacture, transport, deployment and disposal of ordnance.
The entrenched hatred and bitterness that will take decades to ease.

And my deepest concern: the crazy-making contradiction between what America is supposed to be and what it actually does, inflicted on two generations of young people. I'm not sure they'll recover.

Sad to see that enthusiasm for peace wane so rapidly.

What a difference a letter makes.

I guess I shouldn't be but I am surprised by the difference that letter makes in the minds of so many

Obscene profit gains for the defense contractors that make up the military industrial complex. Bill Maher had a great new rule a couple weeks ago about how we as a country are addicted to war and until we change that we're not going to change anything else.

but it's just not something that people want to recognize. And if that's true here, it's even more true in the broader society.

it's not gonna happen of course.

It won't happen in Congress.

It won't happen in the media.

It won't even happen here.

We are fucked until it happens.

The last 5 years taught me a level of cynicism and, frankly, woke me to the fact that all was not the evil work of a rogue little chimp named Bush.

I wanted to believe that what the US was under Bush was not the true US. But a pitcher of water was thrown in my face when we all pulled together and did the incredible by electing Obama. It seemed like such a victory, such a slap back at Bush. As if we were repudiating all that he had done.

And then... I woke up.

Sometimes I wonder if the problem isn't so deeply rooted in institutions that who has become essentially irrelevant.

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funny you posting this after savaging me because i dared criticize angelina jolie, when she's an agent of our disasterous foreign policy.

I spell it out. That you are so wrapped up in your wee self that you think it's of any import that you and a few other people on DU acknowledge it, is irrelevant, except to make clear a certain narcissism.

And your bizarre focus on Angelina Jolie is, uh, disturbing and creepy as hell- to say the least.

Ugh.

go away.

maybe in another 10 years you might actually understand my point about the jolie-pitts, just as it took you years to comprehend the point you post as if it were revelatory here.